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This body of work, a collection of still-lifes, arises from stimulating ideas through observation and introspection. To achieve multidimensionality using the formal tradition of easel painting with oils, I create a set in my art studio to display the objects. I paint in silence, focus on my breathing, and with an awareness of my body posture concerning the object I paint, forming a unit with the canvas and the easel. Painting is a physical experience; my process helps to create an environment where I can materialize the intangible, capturing the essence of what I see and experience.

Painting is not just creating pictures, it is more–it is the whole art object, from the stretcher to the canvas to the paint to the brushstroke marks. I made most of these works on linen instead of cotton canvas, since linen adds a particular resonance—I like to call it a sound–to the paintings, helping to create multidimensional atmospheric spaces. After a couple of decades of painting from intuition, fantasy, and symbolic narrative, this body of work follows a different path, going hand in hand with the conventions of classical painting. That change gives me freedom, allowing me to open new doors in my work. The paintings invite the viewer to an alternative world, a better one, where I seek to receive and embrace the viewer.

I think of art as a human essence, from one’s inner being, linked to the development of thought and the spiritual. Since the beginning, painters have forged painting from the mystical path, achieving pictorial developments with discipline and mastery of the craft. In Acts of Serenity, I seek to embody a continuous mantric repetition of a physical-mental exercise, such as painting.